An analytic algorithm for global coverage of the revisiting orbit and its application to the CFOSAT satellite

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 352, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 497-502

  Xu, Ming ^a   Huang, Li ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic algorithm; CFOSAT; Global coverage; Revisiting orbit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904410118     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: 1572946X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-014-1939-2     Document Type: Article

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